First thing first, sorry I have not written a blog for a long time. I was suffering from a (very long bad ) cold. I am sorry.
Second thing second, the 6th grade just came back from Kazuno on the ninth. Kazuno is a camp that the school owns in the mountains in a prefecture called Gunma. It is not your typical camp because we do not sleep in tents. The boys sleep in bunk beds and the girls sleep in the tatami room. The trip lasted three days and two nights. My favorite day was the second day because these people from a group called Canyons came. We did many team building activities that focused on communication, planning as a group and collaborating.
My favorite one was the balance beam one. My group had to line up on a very short, very narrow balance beam. Then we had to arrange ourselves in order from tallest to smallest. And if someone falls of then everyone has to start over. It was so frustrating because there was no space at all. And, to make things more interesting, 3 of us were blindfolded! It was fun and super not fun at the same time.
But then it unexpectedly started to rain and we thought it would go away after about 5 minutes but it just got harder and harder until we finally went inside. After a lunch of sandwiches, the teachers decided that we should go to a gymnasium to finish up the activities. When we got to the gym, the canyons guys warmed us up with a game of bottle baseball. This focused a lot on team work because you had to work together a lot. My team won!
Next, we split up into three groups and my group did an activity called "blind shapes". Two people from our group were directors. Everyone else was blindfolded and held a long rope together. The directors job was to direct the blindfolded people to move around and make a shape with the rope. This was actually really hard because you are not allowed to touch the people so you have to say "turn 45 degrees to the right" instead of just turning them yourself. Another hard thing is that I for one, move less that I am told when blind-folded and I think that is the same for everyone else too. But as a director I keep forgetting that and say one step back when they need to take 2.
The next game my group played was a timed game. There is a rope ring about the size of two desks pushed together. Inside that ring was the numbers 1~30 on cards. The goal of the game is for everyone to run to the circle, stay around the circle. You must tap the numbers in order from one to thirty with your feet. Sounds easy right? Well, if two or more people are in the circle at once, then you restart! Our time was 48 seconds (?) and we were so proud of ourselves until our group director told us he had seen people do it in 20 Seconds! After that it was sadly time to go.
That was my favorite part of the whole Kazuno trip. I am so sad that this is probably my last Kazuno trip. I was going to write," I can't wait for next Kazuno" but then I realized that their might not be a next Kazuno for me. And if you haven't put your e-mail at the top of the page please do so because *sniff* you will get an alert every *sniff* every time a new post has come *sniff*.
